• COMMON ERRORS:
    • adjectives vs. adverbs
    • comparing apples to apples "i like the intro of this book more than that book"<-comparing intro to entire book
    • dangling modifier subject must be after comma
    • incorrect pronouns
    • misecellaneous:
      • comma splice
      • either...or
      • neither...nor
      • not only...but also
      • so...that "need im SO tired i could sleep now"
    • missing subject and/or verb
    • parallelism->same structure/formatting
    • prepositions!
    • pronoun-antecedent agreement-what pronoun is referring to personal: he she it we they possessive: his her our their
    • subject verb agreement
    • wordiness->should be concise, no extraneous language
  • VOCAB:
    • ambivalent
    • apologetic
    • benevolent
    • cantankerous
    • churlish
    • conclusive
    • corrosive
    • decimation
    • digression
    • disingenuous
    • dismayed
    • electorate
    • emphatic
    • erroneous
    • erroneous
    • esoteric
    • fickly/capricious
    • flotsam
    • hypothetical
    • implacable
    • impugned
    • indignant
    • insubstantial
    • laconic
    • mercurial
    • mollified
    • phlegmatic
    • raiment
    • reconnaissance
    • robust
    • substantiated
    • sustenance
    • tenable
    • wistful
oct 1 2010 ∞
oct 2 2010 +